Celebrities - Inventors

	Charles Algernon Parsons	steam turbine	1854-1931
	Charles Babbage	analytical engine (semi-automatic computer)	1791-1871
	Charles Brace Darrow	Monopoly	1889-1967
	Charles F. Kettering	invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more	1876-1958
	Charles Francis Richter	Richter magnitude scale	1900-1985
	Charles Goodyear	vulcanization of rubber	1800-1860
	Charles Macintosh	waterproof raincoat, life vest	1766-1843
	Charles Simonyi	Hungarian notation	born 1948
	Charles Wheatstone	concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher	1802-1875
	Chester Carlson	Xerography	1906-1968
	Chester Greenwood	thermal earmuffs	1858-1937
	Christiaan Huygens	pendulum clock	1629-1695
	Christian Schnabel	designed simplistic food cutleries	1878-1936
	Christopher Cockerell	Hovercraft	1910-1999
	Christopher Hansteen	discovery of terrestrial magnetism	1783-1873
	Christopher Polhem	the modern padlock	1661-1751
	Clarence Birdseye	frozen food process	1886-1956
	Coenraad Johannes van Houten	cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk	1801-1887
	Corliss Orville Burandt	Variable valve timing
	Cornelis Corneliszoon	sawmill	1550-1607
	Cornelius Drebbel	first navigable submarine	1572-1633
	Daniel David Palmer	Chiropractic	1845-1913
	David Schwarz	rigid ship, later called Zeppelin	1852-1897
	Dean Kamen	Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device	born 1951
	Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov	Maksutov telescope.	1896-1964
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